John Nicholson of Logan tried comparing President Bush's policy on North Korea with a kid maliciously stirring up a hornets' nest for no good reason (Dec. 19 Forum). He said he had a "healthy respect for those little evildoers." If a group of hornets sets up camp in or near my yard, I would kill them. Would Nicholson provide the hornets in his back yard with the means to proliferate? Would he try appeasement?
The hornet analogy is overly simplistic. Tolerance is a naive strategy when dealing with rogue nuclear states.
Nicholson asks, "What about the starving people?" North Korea is starving its own people by spending money on something its leaders feel is more important than food.
I'm not worried about what North Korea will do out of desperation. What they do out of calculation is far worse.
David L. Wilbur
West Valley City